Topic: teens

I bet your promposal was so cute. Look at how cute promposals can be! Want to hear about my promposal? I kind of just like saying the word, but, also, I will tell you about it. No interruptions. More »

Look, when I think about Victoria’s Secret, I generally think about leopard corsetry. Want to know a secret? A personal kind, though somewhat related to Victoria? I shopped there when I was about 16. I basically thought “leopard skin on everything” was the definition of sexy. I grew out of that. But The Daily Mail is shocked – absolutely shocked! – first, that Victoria’s Secret is sexy, and second that teens are shopping there. More »

Remember that awful abstinence lady religious organizations paid to go to a school in West Virginia and yell lies at kids like “all sexual contact leads to STDs” and “if you’re taking birth control pills, your mother hates you”? Well, one brave student at that school has been speaking out against her slut-shaming ways, despite alleged threats from her principal. More »

A 16-year-old girl in Fairfax, Virginia has been “asked to leave” (i.e. expelled from) Catholic prep school Paul VI after a topless photo she sent to a male friend got shared around by everyone on the lacrosse team. Meanwhile, the boys on the lacrosse team received no punishment. Come again? More »

Straight teens of America! Are you feeling oppressed by all the existing that LGBT kids have been allowed to do lately? Do you feel your heterosexual unions are threatened by the gay love next door? Are you sick and tired of your hoity toity “state” thinking it’s too good to be friends with your very important church? Indiana special ed teacher Diana Medley hears you, and she is taking action. More »

The students have started a Facebook page with photos from girls not allowed into the dance. Check these picures out (and hear the teens and their parents stories!) and see if there is a single dress you find inappropriate: More »

The wonderful blog English Russia recently scanned in some photos from the Soviet era teen magazine “Sverstnitsa,” which the blog translates to “peer girl.” They’re all taken from issues that came out in 1989, and constitute a wonderful snapshot of how Soviet teens used to dress when they wanted to look fancy. Try as they might, those mean communist leaders could not keep out the influence of the west, as you can see from the girls’ New Wave haircuts, stone washed denim, and shiny, shiny everything. I also appreciate their pin-up poses. More »

In the most tabloid-y thing we’ve seen since Tan Mom, an Oklahoma woman named Betsy Brashear was arrested last week after allegedly trying to seduce a 15-year-old boy by way of a tanning bed. A tanning bed tryst, if you will. More »

Faux-controversial bikini wearer Kate Upton is all of twenty years old. Since most models start very young, Upton probably spent the bulk of her teen years in a bikini, too. These photos–apparently from Upton’s early days at Elite Model Management (Miami division)–show a slightly more wholesome (and 15-17 year old) version of the permanently half-naked, cheeseburger-molesting bombshell. Let’s take a look. More »